In the last few months, news organizations have leapt into bed with OpenAI, hatching Faustian bargains where the cash-strapped media industry exchanges a monetary pittance for OpenAI's right to scrape and integrate their content into things like ChatGPT. Those that have signed in blood include... Continue reading >> [ Source: Engadget | 2024-05-29 16:21:28 UTC ]
Months after mass layoffs threatened its future, Sports Illustrated will resume publishing after its owner reached a new rights deal with digital media company Minute Media. Continue reading >> [ Source: CBC | 2024-03-18 17:12:26 UTC ]
Its operators made a newsroom announcement, but the outcome is uncertain since the owner has signaled it wants the magazine to endure. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2024-03-14 21:44:26 UTC ]
Last week, Guto Harri, an anchor on GB News, in the United Kingdom, addressed a pressing news story: the racist abuse that Black English players faced following the final of the European soccer championships, which England lost, and the broader debate around the players’ practice of taking a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Columbia Journalism Review | 2021-07-20 12:38:46 UTC ]
[caption id="attachment_177771" align="alignright" width="150"] Jason Frierott[/caption] Meredith Corp. announced Thursday that it has hired Jason Frierott as its new VP and CFO, succeeding Joe Ceryanec, who had previously announced plans to retire in early 2020 after 12 years in the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2020-02-27 20:00:04 UTC ]
[caption id="attachment_141881" align="alignright" width="150"] Joe Brown[/caption] Hearst Magazines has hired Joe Brown as group editorial director of its Hearst Autos division, which includes Car and Driver, Road & Track and Autoweek, among other titles, starting March 2. Brown moves to... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2020-02-13 19:39:00 UTC ]
Meredith announced it has another quarterly newsstand title in the works, this time with chef, author and TV personality Ayesha Curry. This will be the second new title added to the Meredith portfolio in 2020, along with “The Property Brothers” Drew Jonathan Scott’s Reveal, which hit newsstands... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2020-01-23 14:48:45 UTC ]
Meredith Corp. has sold the Money magazine brand to Ad Practitioners LLC, a three-year-old Puerto Rico-based media and advertising startup behind the product review site ConsumersAdvocate.org, both parties announced Tuesday morning. Terms of the deal were not disclosed. One of a handful of... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2019-10-22 16:06:17 UTC ]
Yeah, I was in the magazine business before you were. Probably. This was from 1973 to 1977, a gentler time when baseball uniforms were double-knit and Nazis had the decency to cower in South America and Good & Plenty was a household name. It was a time, dear reader, before Photoshop. Before... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2019-05-30 14:46:31 UTC ]
Meredith Corp. execs touted what they saw as encouraging signs for both print and digital advertising as well as a significant uptick in consumer-driven revenue on an earnings call Friday reporting the company's performance in the third quarter of 2019 (Meredith's fiscal years start in July... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2019-05-14 16:48:23 UTC ]
Rick Reilly’s course of action isn’t to cheat the audience. The former L.A. Times, Sports Illustrated and ESPN writer sized up the room of about 30 bunched into the center of an independent book store in Manhattan Beach the other night and declared: As a golfer, your president is all about... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2019-04-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Welcome to Ad Age's Wake-Up Call, our daily roundup of advertising, marketing, media and digital news. You can get an audio version of this briefing on your Alexa device. Search for "Ad Age" under "Skills" in the Alexa app. What people are talking about today: Time magazine is getting new... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2018-09-17 00:00:00 UTC ]
[caption id="attachment_109685" align="alignright" width="488"] Meredith Corp.'s Des Moines, Iowa headquarters.[/caption] Meredith has taken further steps in its long-term reorganization strategy that began after its acquisition of Time Inc. nearly two years ago. The Wall Street Journal first... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2018-09-13 00:00:00 UTC ]
As it does twice each year, GfK MRI released its latest round of magazine audience estimates—the average per-issue readership among U.S. adults for about 200 of the most widely-read magazines—based on consumer research conducted over a nine-month period. The Spring 2018 figures—drawn from the... Continue reading >> [ Source: Folio Magazine | 2018-06-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Meredith Corp., which bought Time Inc. and its stable of magazines in January, plans to sell the flagship publication Time, as well as Sports Illustrated, Fortune and the Money brand, after completing a review of the $1.8-billion deal. The company also intends to eliminate about 1,000 jobs over... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2018-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Meredith Corp., which bought Time Inc. and its stable of magazines in January, plans to sell flagship publication Time as well as Sports Illustrated, Fortune and Money after completing a review of the $1.8 billion deal.The company also intends to eliminate about 1,000 jobs over the next 10... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2018-03-22 00:00:00 UTC ]
Time Inc. decided that if its famous magazine titles such as Time, People and Sports Illustrated were going to survive the wrenching shift from print publishing to digital viewership, the company couldn’t do it alone. And so Time agreed to be acquired by another magazine publisher, Meredith... Continue reading >> [ Source: Los Angeles Times | 2017-11-28 00:00:00 UTC ]
The company’s decline is readily apparent – but if the billionaire brothers’ other interests are a guide, their investment will be about more than moneyThat Charles and David Koch are putting $650m into Meredith Corp’s purchase of Time would ordinarily be cause for great soul-searching in media.... Continue reading >> [ Source: The Guardian | 2017-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Meredith Corp. has agreed to acquire Time Inc. for $2.8 billion including debt, swallowing the once-mighty home of Fortune and Sports Illustrated after the internet age wreaked havoc on even the most prestigious magazine titles.The $18.50-a-share offer is an all-cash one, Meredith said in a... Continue reading >> [ Source: Advertising Age | 2017-11-27 00:00:00 UTC ]
Earlier talks this year between Time Inc., the publisher of People and Sports Illustrated, and the Meredith Corporation fizzled out. Continue reading >> [ Source: The New York Times | 2017-11-16 00:00:00 UTC ]